Distributors and traders
Stock across godowns, credit customers, collections and GST invoices, with the owner able to see all of it without asking.
ERP development company · Bengaluru
ERP software development for how your business actually runs.
MyFloww is an ERP software company in Bengaluru (Bangalore) building custom ERP software for businesses across India: inventory, purchase, billing with GST, staff, approvals, multiple locations and reporting in one business management system with one set of numbers — built around your operations and implemented in phases.
Quoted per projectOne module at a timeYour data, your code
What it covers
The operational core, in one system.
A custom ERP brings together the parts of a business that usually live in separate tools — stock, purchasing, billing, staff, approvals and reports — so there is one set of numbers and everyone works from it.
- Inventory
- Stock by item, batch and location, updated as goods come in, move and go out, with reorder levels that warn you before you run short.
- Purchase
- Purchase orders, supplier records, goods received against what was ordered, and what you owe to whom.
- Billing with GST
- GST-compliant invoices, credit notes and records, with tax details held against each item and customer, and the reports your accountant needs for returns.
- Staff
- Who works where, attendance, and the records payroll is run from — in the same system as the work they do.
- Approvals
- Discounts, refunds and purchases above a limit sent to the person who signs them off, with a record of who approved what and when.
- Multiple locations
- Branches, warehouses or outlets each with their own stock, sales and staff, rolled up for the whole business, with transfers between them recorded as they happen.
- Reporting
- Sales, stock, margins and collections on one screen, from the same numbers everyone works from — not a spreadsheet rebuilt at the end of every month.
Packaged or custom
Why a packaged ERP is often the wrong size.
A packaged ERP is designed for a business willing to change its processes to fit the software, and priced for one that uses most of it; a small Indian business is usually neither.
- Paying for modules you never open
- Packaged ERPs are sold as suites. A distributor that needs inventory, billing and collections pays for manufacturing, projects and HR alongside them.
- Customisation that costs more than the licence
- Making a packaged product follow your process, rather than the other way round, is consultancy billed by the day — and it can break when the product upgrades.
- Screens built for an accounts department
- Designed for trained back-office users. A counter, a godown or a shop floor needs three buttons, not thirty fields.
- Your exceptions are how you win work
- Credit for a regular customer, a rate agreed on the phone, stock lent to another branch — the things a packaged ERP treats as exceptions are often how a small business actually runs.
- When packaged is right
- If your process is standard and you are willing to adopt the product's way of working, a packaged ERP or plain accounting software is cheaper and faster. We will say so at the first conversation.
The wider build-or-buy decision is set out on custom software and app development.
Phased delivery
One module at a time, each in use before the next.
A custom ERP is delivered in phases, starting with the module that costs the business most every day, and each phase goes live and is used for real before the next one is built.
- Start where it hurts most
- Usually billing or inventory — the module whose absence costs time or money every single day.
- In use before the next is built
- Each phase is shaped by what people actually do with the last one, not by a specification written before anyone tried it.
- Data moved as each module lands
- Opening stock, customer and supplier lists and open balances brought across from spreadsheets or the old system.
- Connected to the rest
- A custom CRM for sales, a customer app or WhatsApp updates can share the same database when they are needed, rather than being bolted on later.
Who it is for
Four businesses a custom ERP fits.
ERP 01 ERP 02 Retail with more than one outlet
Stock per outlet, transfers between them, and one view of sales across all of them.ERP 03 Service businesses with operations behind them
Clinics, hospitals, labs and coaching centres: scheduling, staff, billing and records. What we build for hospitals sets out one in detail.ERP 04 Businesses running on four subscriptions
Billing in one tool, stock in a spreadsheet, staff in another, and nobody sure which number is the right one.
How an ERP project runs
From how the business runs to one system it runs on.
01 · First
Map the operation
How goods, money and work move through the business, and where the numbers stop agreeing with each other.
02 · Fixed scope
Scope phase one
One module, a fixed scope and a fixed price.
03 · In the open
Build, import, go live
On a live preview with your real items and customers, then live, with the opening data moved across.
04 · From real use
The next module
Scoped from how the first one is actually being used.
Questions
About custom ERP development.
What is a custom ERP?
A custom ERP is one system for a business's operational core — inventory, purchase, billing, staff, approvals and reporting — built around how that business runs rather than configured out of a packaged product.
Why not use a packaged ERP?
A packaged ERP suits a business willing to change its processes to fit the software. For many small Indian businesses the fit is poor: modules paid for and never used, customisation that costs more than the licence, and screens designed for an accounts department rather than a counter or a shop floor.
Does a custom ERP handle GST?
Yes. GST-compliant invoices, credit notes and records are built in, with tax details held against each item and customer, and the reports your accountant needs for returns.
Can a custom ERP work across several branches or warehouses?
Yes. Stock, sales, staff and reports are held per location and rolled up for the whole business, with transfers between locations recorded as they happen.
How is a custom ERP delivered?
In phases, starting with the module that hurts most — usually billing or inventory — so it is in daily use before the next one is built, and the rest is shaped by how the first one is actually used.
Is a custom ERP the right ERP solution for a small business?
Sometimes. A custom ERP is the right ERP solution for a small business when its operations do not fit a packaged product's assumptions, or when it is paying for modules it does not use; when they do fit, a packaged ERP is usually the quicker and cheaper answer.
Phasing is what makes custom workable at a small business's size: the module that hurts most is built first and is in daily use before anything else is started.
What do your ERP implementation services include?
ERP implementation covers moving the opening data across, setting up users, roles and approvals, connecting the systems the ERP has to talk to, and bringing each module into daily use before the next one starts.
Moving the old data is usually the slowest part, because the numbers in the new system have to agree with the books. It is planned in the scope, module by module, rather than left to the end.
Where to next
- Custom software and app development
The whole of what we build to order, and how to decide whether to build or buy.
- Custom CRM development
The sales side — leads, follow-ups and quotes — that an ERP usually sits beside.
- MVP and SaaS development
When the system you need is a product other businesses will use, not just your own.
- How much does ERP development cost in India?
Modules, locations, GST work, integrations and migration: what decides the size of an ERP quote.
- What are the benefits of custom ERP software?
What a custom ERP gives you that a packaged one cannot, and the trade-offs that come with it.
- CRM vs ERP: which does a business need first?
Which side of the sale each system runs, and where one hands over to the other.
- Should you build a custom ERP or use a SaaS ERP?
When Zoho, Odoo, ERPNext or SAP Business One is the better answer, and the hybrid route that keeps Tally.
- How long does custom software take to build?
What sets the timeline of a module-by-module build, and what slows it down.
Tell us where your numbers stop agreeing.
Custom ERPs are quoted per project, one phase at a time. Describe how stock, money and work move through your business today, and we will scope the first module and price it.
Or message us on WhatsApp (opens in a new tab) · info@myfloww.in